(a.) Containing more than once, or more than one; consisting of more than one; manifold; repeated many times; having several, or many, parts.
(n.) A quantity containing another quantity a number of times without a remainder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple stored energy levels were randomly tested and the percent successful defibrillation was plotted against the stored energy, and the raw data were fit by logistic regression.
(2) Seventeen patients (Group 1) had had no previous surgery, while 13 (Group 2) had had multiple previous operations.
(3) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(4) A series of eight patients with multiple meningiomas is presented.
(5) Patients were chronically ill homosexual men with multiple systemic opportunistic infections.
(6) Using multiple regression, a linear correlation was established between the cardiac index and the arterial-venous pH and PCO2 differences throughout shock and resuscitation (r2 = .91).
(7) Along the spectrum of loyalties lie multiple loyalties and ambiguous loyalties, and the latter, if unresolved, create moral ambiguities.
(8) The multiple pregnancy rate was 18% and the abortion rate, 18%.
(9) Time-series analysis and multiple-regression modeling procedures were used to characterize changes in the overall incidence rate over the study period and to describe the contribution of additional measures to the dynamics of the incidence rates.
(10) Plasma concentrations of desmethyldiazepam (DMDZ) were determined in multiple samples drawn during 48 hr after each dose.
(11) Delineation of the presence and anatomy of an obstructed, nonfunctioning upper-pole duplex system often requires multiple imaging techniques.
(12) A sperm whale myoglobin gene containing multiple unique restriction sites has been constructed in pUC 18 by sequential assembly of chemically synthesized oligonucleotide fragments.
(13) Thus the failure to raise anti-Id with internal image characteristics may provide an explanation for the lack of anti-gp120 activity reported in anti-Id antisera raised to multiple anti-CD4 antibodies.
(14) Unusually high cooperativity, specificity, and multiplicity in the protein kinase C-phospholipid interaction are demonstrated by examining the lipid dependence of enzymatic activity.
(15) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
(16) An accurate and reproducible method is described for generating a map of the cobalt sheet source from images of it made in multiple positions with the scintillation camera.
(17) We have therefore been unable to confirm that SV5 may be a major intrathecal immunogen in multiple sclerosis.
(18) Multiple operations were done in 7 patients prior to the appropriate diagnosis and treatment.
(19) The multiple logistic model, the most commonly used model for the analysis of coronary heart disease studies, does not consider survival time in assessment of the dependent covariates and does not account for the censoring which usually occurs in such studies.
(20) Odds ratios were computed by multiple logistic regression analysis and revealed no additional relationships; however, there were suggested dose-response gradients for height, weight at age 20, and body surface area in the Japanese women and for breast size in the Caucasian women.
Multiplex
Definition:
(a.) Manifold; multiple.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our multiplex gene regulatory system (MGR) allows the establishment of transgenic lines that harbor inducible potentially lethal transgenes.
(2) The second national multiplex was handed to 4 Digital, but was handed back after Channel 4 pulled out.
(3) We report a male infant with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC) who survived for 19 weeks following birth at 36 weeks gestational age.
(4) While the multiplexes seem to be racing to make filmgoing expensive and unglamorous, here was romance.
(5) The important otolaryngological manifestations of arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC), which heretofore have not been described in otolaryngological and other specialty journals, are reviewed.
(6) SATAPEC is a computerized system built in the Laboratory for recording over 256 multiplexed channels and for automatic processing of cardiac electrical potentials.
(7) Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita is a rare disorder of skeletal muscle development which is characterized by deforming contractures of the joints, but seldom affects the temporomandibular joint.
(8) Cinema chains in the UK and abroad fear relaxation of the window in case film lovers decide to save their pennies and see new releases at home rather than travelling to their nearest multiplex.
(9) We analysed six multiplex pedigrees of schizophrenia for linkage to two DNA probes mapping to the chromosome 5q11-q13 region where linkage to a gene for schizophrenia was recently reported.
(10) The technique identified the main transitions for the sutures and frequency multiplexing was used to define the variation of modulus with time.
(11) The histologic, enzyme histochemical, and ultrastructural findings were those of steatocystoma multiplex.
(12) This especially because the pathogenesis of Arthrogryposis multiplex is unknown.
(13) A total of 17 such children were studied; of these, seven were from three multiplex families and two fathers from these families had diabetes.
(14) For quick and prenatal analysis the authors used multiplex PCR.
(15) The strategy, called a "multiplex study design," employs (1) multiple collaborating centers, (2) multiple experts in the diagnoses being studied at each site, and (3) multiple diagnostic criteria sets so that alternative definitions of disorders can be compared in terms of (4) multiple external validity criteria, such as familial aggregation, course, and differential response to treatment.
(16) Simultaneous imaging of proton and sodium is achieved using a new two coil system and a time-multiplexing technique with a 1.5 T NMR imaging system.
(17) This information was used to develop a multiplex amplification system that could identify the genus Mycobacterium and then distinguish between M. avium and M. intracellulare, two commonly encountered mycobacteria other than tuberculosis.
(18) We thus investigated polymorphisms of INS and neighbouring loci in random diabetics, IDDM multiplex families and controls.
(19) Although Multiplex will be glad to receive some extra cash for the project, it will simply mean that its total loss on Wembley drops from £183m to £148m.
(20) Multiplex PCR allows for an assay of the gene of interest and assures that the amplification process proceeds as expected with the use of a companion control genome primer set.